Morning Reads: Chandelier shuffle

Keith Olbermann appeared on the “Late Show with David Letterman” on Tuesday after being booted from Current TV, referring to himself as a “$10 million chandelier” without a house to be put in and admitting, “I screwed up really big.”

Letterman kicked off his brief sit-down with the TV personality by asking how long ago he had left MSNBC to go to Current TV.

“I don’t know. I have to consult my notes because after a certain point, I can’t keep track of where I’m working,” Olbermann joked.

Liberal bloviator Keith Olbermann spent his last days at Current TV driving colleagues nuts with rants about “smelly’’ drivers who had the audacity to talk to him, according to startling e-mails obtained by The Post.

“The problem is with him . . . the man who professes to be for the 99% doesn’t want any of the 99% talking to him or being near him,” an accounting executive complained in one of the missives.

Former Thomson Reuters Chief Executive Tom Glocer will walk away with almost $20 million in compensation, including $3.1 million in severance to be paid over two years, according to a regulatory filing.

Glocer stepped down as CEO at the end of 2011 after the news and information provider underwent a series of structural changes and management shakeups to address lackluster sales of one of its key products Eikon and a declining stock price.

Sid Holt, the chief executive of the American Society of Magazine Editors, says criticisms about how few women were named as finalists for this year’s National Magazine Awards are “kind of silly.”

In an email, Holt outlines the awards’ process: “There were 345 judges this year, including editors from nearly every magazine you can name. There were women’s-service editors judging the reporting and writing categories, and there were male sports editors judging the service categories.” Over the course of two days, he writes, they chose finalists.

In 2012, Vice is still free, and you can still find it on the floors of record shops, and it still has all of that other stuff, too. But the Brooklyn-based monthly also has something that the Vice of the early 2000s probably never would have envisioned in its wildest dreams (or worst nightmares): A chance at beating The New Yorker (and New York, and GQ and Bloomberg Businessweek) in this year's National Magazine Awards.

China is notorious for censoring politically delicate news coverage. But it is more than willing to let flattering news about Western and Asian businesses appear in print and broadcast media — if the price is right.

Want a profile of your chief executive to appear in the Chinese version of Esquire? That will be about $20,000 a page, according to the advertising department of the magazine, which has a licensing agreement with the Hearst Corporation in the United States.